Macri during a press conference in 2013. Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved.
The October 25 elections brought an apparently contradictory result: positioning as frontrunner in the race to the Casa Rosada (Presidential Palace) a center-right party, in a national context in which a generalised centre left stance is far from disappearing.
It could be said that Mauricio Macri and Cambiemos (a coalition formed in 2015, consisting of Macri’s Propuesta Republicana - PRO, the Coalición Cívica - ARI, and the Unión Cívica Radical - UCR) already owned the rightwing vote and therefore went in search of the progressives, but Macri’s need to overplay right up to the end in order to rid himself of a neoliberal, privatizing stigma – while at the same time avoiding the demagoguery of the ‘iron fist’ – would appear to demonstrate that his vote is not that of a rightwing electorate.
